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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04
A DAMAGING ISLANDER.

SENECA, Kan. July pa special from
Leavenworth to the Chicago Tribune,
dated July %, states that reports received
from northeastern Kansas. places the
corn crop as total failure. and the dis
patch is a damaging SANDER. so far as Ne
maha county is concerned. All corn
planted in season is making a good crop
and without another drop more rain this
county is good for an average yield of
fifty bushels to the acre.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Garden City, Kas., July 26, 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice Of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge, in his alb
sence, the Clerk of the District Court, at Dodge
City, Kansas, on September 23rd, 1887, viz:
Robert Kesterson for lots and 4, hf Or.
section IS, in township 25 SOUTH Of range % west
of the 9th p. n.
He names tie following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viz:
OMarion Parker, G. Bashum, A. Utterback, of
Dodge City, Kan, and r. b. Snyder, of SnyderP. o.
Kansas.
il 81 CIV C.. F. NJ. NILES, Register.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

A correspondent of Peoria GIL Trans
cript calls attention to the fact that in
case Robert T. Lincoln should be elected
President next year, it would not only be
a repetition of the Adams succession of
son to father in that Office, but that the
interval-twenty- eight years-would also
be the same. Mr.. Lincoln's boom ap-
peals with special force, therefore. to
those who believe in the logic Of coinci-
dence; and aside from that, it is quite a
gracious and temperate thing in its way,
which the average citizen can view with
respectful and kindly indulgence on gen
eral principles. Democrat.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Land Office at Garden City, Kansas. July Is. 1887.
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settlenias filed notice Of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge. or in his alb
sence, the Clerk of the District Court,
at Dodge City. Kansas. on the I'D day OF Sept.
1885,, viz:
Patrick Cline, H. f. No 449S, for lots !, 2. and
Inf ne Or, section 8, in township . south, ct
range q west of the 9Th p. N.
He names the following witnesses to prove his
continuous residence upon. and cultivation Of, said
land. viz:
Robert LANCE William d. Mcdaniel, Edward "
Cooley and John II. Bangs, all Of Dodge City, Kan.
sas,
I.sS,6t CT. n. NILES, Resjstes
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04
FARMING AND CROPS.

Colonel G. M. Hoover, of Dodge City,
stopped off at Garden City for while
yesterday on his return from an extended
trip to Utah territory, whittier he went
to arrange for consignments of wheat
grown in the famed valleys of that terri
tory, to be used in his mills at Dodge
City.
Colonel Hoover has much to say of his
trip and of the many commendable meth
DDS of farming and grading grains by the
Mormons and others engaged in agricul-
ture there, and reports greater acreage
of wheat this year than ever before and
an over average yield. The gran plump
and solid and the straw healthy; this in
sures a good grade of -four. Fruit is
very abundant and of excellent quality.
He says peaches, the leading fruit, is
especially so, while a wormy or deformed
apple cannot be seen, All other fruits
are in excellent condition. Green cages
and apricots are very prolific and of won
derful size and of excellent flavor. The
colonel was very much taken with the
idea of being able to pluck fruits from
the sidewalks of even portions of the
business streets, and proposes to 'dupli-
cate the idea as soon as he gets home
Garden City Sentinel.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

Deep blowing is one of the secrets of
successful farming The best field of corn
we have seen this year is growing on land
that was plowed from ten to twelve
inches deep The soil here is so
deep that it will stand deep plow
ing and the deeper the soil is stirred the
more moisture is absorbed during such
rains as we often have here. Then if it
turns dry, the field will stand it and is
bound to make in spite of dry weather.
Elk.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

The farmers of Minnesota and Dakota
are somewhat at a loss to know why
binder Irvine has taken such sudden
jump upwards The price has recently
risen to double what it was in former
years and none to be had even at the adj
vanced prices There may be bare pos
sibility that three or four enterprislng
Irvine men have cornered the product
and are holding off for higher prices.
Ordinary Irvine, which used to sell Tor
Is cents per pound, now sells for 30 cents.
What is the troublel
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

That troublesome little insect that at
this time of the year bOres into the flesh
and makes finger nails so useful. is
spelled chigoe or chigre or chegre or
chegoe Or chigger or jigger. Entomo-
logically speaking it is Pulex Genetraus.
The word chigger, with all of its varia-
ton, is from the Spanish CHICO meaning
small. We have seen the word spelled
so many different ways of late that we
felt it a duty to tell just how the word is
spelled. The local editors of Kansas, be-
tween scratches, will please take note
of this information. -Nationalist,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

Dakota will vote the coming fall on
the question of division. AS there are
some 200, 600 people in the northern part
of the territory and twice that number in
the southern. there are people. land and
prospects enough to makes two good
states out of, and it will probably be so
decided.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

When a town in Western Kansas con-
cludes to put in improvements it doesn't
consume all summer discussing plans and
methods; it just raises the money and
goes ahead with the work. Scott City
raised S57, 900 in two days recently with
which to build hotel and make few
other improvements.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

The newspaper talk about the star of
Bethlehem has set people to scrutinizing
the heavens to decipher the constellation
and locate the star. For the informa-
ton of the unlearned we would say you
will easily find it on any map of the
United States, being between latitude 81
degrees, and 40 minutes ond longitude "a
degrees, 40 minutes and 1902 seconds west.
The Greek name of the star is Kansas
1t is very bright sparkling object and
has attracted widespread attention ever
since its discovery.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04

There is rumOr to the effect that
Ellinwood is to he made freight division
for the Santa Fe. This said to be relia-
blc.-Ellinwood Express
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-04
STATEMENT

Of the Condition ofthe Merchants
State Bank Of Dodge City, Kan
SaS, at the Close Of Bust
ness July 28th, 1887.
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The New Remedy for Cholera.


~ see," sail George w. Sloan, the druggist,
"in this afternoons papers dispatch from
Panama which says that Brazilian and Gillian
papers are recommending cocoa as one of the
best remedies for cholera and claiming that
the leaf was used with marvellous success
during the Paraguayan war. Tbs is not the
cocoa Of commerce, but the leaf Of shrub
something like the laurel, and is chewed
like tobacco, with the addition of wood ashes
or iimc either Of these being added in no
stronger proportion than salt is with meat
The fact is this is the leaf of the erythroxylon
coca.
This leaf has been mentioned by travellers
as used by Indians in South America while
mountain climbing, with great burdens upon
their shoulders or engaged in other heavy
Mbor. The Indians carry pouch of leaves,
which they sprinkle with lime when they
chew it, and by means Of which they undergo
great fatigue and so without food for many
hours. The leat is so powerfully stimulating
that it is even found that persons who lie
down in the vicinity of bales of the leaves are
occasioned severe headache. The leaf has
been used as substitute for tea. 1t is four
to five inches long and an inch and a half
wide. Two or three leaves are sufficient to
make ten for half dozen persons. The aka
loid, cocaine, is made from this leaf, and
while the leaf has been long known the
peculiar anasthetic qualities as shown by the
alkaioid have been Of recent discovery
Indianapolis Journal.
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ONE DAY.

The empty house Is sad, and dark, and still,
But by tho shore and DER the fair, green hill
hear tho echoing laugh and voices shrin
OF little ones at play,
And sitting lonely thus watch tho glow
The grand sunsetting-ah, we loved II so,
When, In It's light, we met 70 long ago
We met and kissed ono day.
I look along the road-no shadow falls;
Ny heart boats fast, but still no fond voico calls
Only rustic In the dim, wide halls
.f Whore gh0stly curtains sway.
II from their depths you should come forth TO-
night, .. ........
And. touching mouth and eyes with kisses light,
Could heal my wounds and give me lite and sight,
What Would dAsS 70 says
Could dare 70 tell thee Of the weary years
Bereft Of Joy, the eyes grown dim with tears,
Tho faintlng heart bowed down with bitter fears!
This only could say, 49,.
Only the four fond words, II love thee still"
with al womnn's dover Of strength and WILL
While life shall last, while pulses throb and thrill,
Hove thee, a. that day.
All, me! no whisper wakes, no kisses fall,
Only the shadows I'll the darkening hall;
Thou art at rest and !, In Lifo's sad thrall.
Must work, and weep, and pray.
When all the long, sod years have past me rolled
Shall silver locks shine once again a. gold,
Shall I be young who have grown tired and old,
When we shall meet-one dayi
Mary Riddel Corley.
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Beaten Mt Their Own Game.

1t was at a seaside resort. A lonely mer.
chant was in search of health, and he took q
great deal of exercise in playing poker. He
had two opponents, and they always won.
There is nothing so liable to ruin mans
reputation as to win regularly at poker.
Your dearest friend mistrusts four aces and
to have four kings frequently spoils the
pleasure of the game-to others. Those
two gentlemen always won. A friend of the
lonely merchant whispered to him one day
that they were not SO lucky as he was green
and that they were well known sharpers. He
was out $50. He did not like to lose it. So
he said to his friend one day, as one of the
sharpers came up behind him:
"Follow my lead Keep the conversation
to suit
He pretended he was not aware of the
sharper's presence, and he said in casual
way to his friend:
"I've been darned unlucky lately at cards.
But tomorrow have $500 coming and you
bet III clean those fellows OUT
The sharper stole away. That night he
played again, and his luck changed. He
backed his luck, and it stood by him. He
won $780, Then he quit.
"You're ahead" said one of the sharpers
blandly.
ga little"
"Well, you must give us revenge"
"When that $500 comes" he said, and
winlled. The two sharpers kicked them
selves metaphorically all over the HOTEL
San Francisco Chronicle.
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PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
vse... Theories aad Exppsri.nes. ID Every
Day Life.

ysets. theories and Experiences n Every
a.. Day Life. ....-. ....
DR.. Bactus, In d paper on chronic con-
stipation, read before medical society N
Canada, divided the treatment for this very
common complaint into hygienic, dietetic,
medicinal and mechanical Under hygienic. he
referred to exercise, walking and riding,
massage Of tho abdomen and general massage
In persons unable TO take active exercise, and
bathing, as conducive to permanent cure.
Under dietetics, no forbade the excessive
use OF meat or . too nutritious dict, and
advised more vegetables, fruit and coarss
breads. Some people took too little fluids,
and q more liberii supply of water frequently
relieved them. In tho medicinal treatment Of
these cases, he thought usually q combination
Of drugs In small doses acted better than
single one. He enumerated succinctly the
indications for tho more important purga-
tives. He had found, in some Of the most
obstinate cases Of constipation In children,
cod liver oil act with great satisfaction.
He had not found cascara sagrada to b
. specific A pill he found useful In many
cases Is one containing sulphato Of iron, aloes,
colocynth, nux vomica and belladonna.
Under the last heading bo noticed tue various
enemas and suppositories useful in con-
stipation. In all cases, patients must be
urged to solicit motion of the bowels at the
same hour daily; the persistent practice Of
this rule would cure the majority Of cases.
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a Distinctly American Decoration.

It is getting TO pass at our theatres that the
managers will presently have to provide a
special section, with ample troughs and con-
duits connecting with the sewer, as a tobacco
chewers' sty. l havo often noticed in the
court rooms and corridors and ante-rooms OF
our public buildings how the decorations
were enhanced by original designs in sepia.
The cuspidor is a familiar accessory of every
hotel parlor, and good many private ones
There are aesthetic cuspidors made specially
for the drawing room, and humble but ca
pacious ones for the bar room. But it is,
anyhow. impossible to wander anywhere in
public without encountering something, from
the modest box Of sawdust up to the gilded
majolica urn, provided for the salvation Of
tho carpet on the floor.
The theatres have not yet adopted the GUS
pidor as an attachment Of every seat Con-
sequently the men who chew tobacco during
a performance are reduced to tho more prim-
tive methods Of relieving their overburdened
mouths The other evening, at Mr.. Harri-
CAMS theatre, my neighbor was we'll known
man about town. He was sumptuously ar
rayed in evening dress, and when he came in
wore bran new silk hat of the latest London
m AXE, which he deposited under his seat.
When he prepared to depart he discovered
that the person behind him had adapted his
head gear to the uses Of the old time sawdust
box, and had resorted to it so diligently that
its value as d hat was over for good and all.
The disguised faneur had to 20 home in a
coach, swearing that he would hold the
management responsible for his defiled tile.
The author Of its destruction sat placidlv
chewing his cud while his victim was de-
nouncins him, and said never word in re-
ply.-Alfred Trumble in New York News.
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ADVERTISING IN CHINATOWN.


A Pole which ID the Principal Medium
OF business Announcements.
The great advertising medium, Of China
town Is a tall telegraph pole In front OF tho
Wo Koe store In Mott street, fow doors
from Chatham souare. Tho pole Ia about
two foot In diameter. and Il Il always girdled
by belt of advertisements written In Chinese
characters on sheets Of yellow. white, or fire
cracker red paper. Tho girdle is three or
four feet broad and thus the available ad-
yortisinc space Il from eighteen to twenty
four square feet, This does not suffice for
the needs OF Chinatown, and another tele.
graph pole on the other side Of the street out
toward the corner Of Park street gets part
of the business.
When the Chinese avail themselves OF this
advertising medium they are reminded of
the pcryersity of this western people III doing
almost everything in a way diametrically
different from their time honored Oriental
method. There Is never any doubt as to the
circulation of this advertising medium, for
nobody claims that it circulates II stands
there wear In and wear out. and the readers
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SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
Catherine owen Talks About Regular
Reception Days.

Catherine owen Talks About Regular
Reception Days.
Catherine Owen, in Good Housekeeping,
urges every woman who has any but very in
innate friends. to have an afternoon in the
week to receive calls. Many women of wealth
and social position have adopted the fashion,
perhaps at first because it was a fashion, but
there is a great deal more than that to be
said in its favor and it is to the busy woman,
who has every moment occupied with house.
hold duties and yet keeps her hold on social
life, who will find it a saving of time and q
means of snatching some passing pleasure and
repose from what otherwise is an occasional
vexation, whom the custom would help most.
The advantage of a receiving day is often
fully understood but women who make no
social pretension shrink from it for fear Of
being thought "airy" or aping fashion; but it
is just these women who might look on it as
an absolute duty to themselves and a real
kindness to their friends.
How many of us do not know what it is to
have an acquaintance, who is both agreeable
and would be welcome, call on us Just as we
are doing something that we are nervously
anxious to finish, or that requires our I'M
divided attention; fortunate if we are not in
the middle of some delicate cooking that will
spoil by leaving it. There arc then but two
things to do-ask your visitor right into the
kitchen or work room, or leave everything
and 60 to her just as we are; anything is bet
ter than to keep her waiting. If we do the
first she will know that she has just come at
the wrong time, ard feel that she is intruding
in spite Of your assurance that you wish her
to stay, and in fact if you 60 on busily with
your occupation you really cannot enjoy her
visit, while If you leave everything, you will
show the marks perhaps Of being very busy,
and your mind will wander to the oven that
was just right and is now cooling, or the work
that you wanted to finish SO specially to-day;
in any case, you do not enjoy the visit, and
your visitor will feel that you have been very
polite, but that she might have chosen bet
ter time.
BY having a "day" you do away with all
this, and you save time You know the after
noon or evening when your friends will call,
and you arrange accordingly. You need lose
time only for that day; you will have no ex-
acting work in hand; you will be dressed and
ready, and stocking darning or small mend
ing, although not parlor work, may be left to
pick up, and can be put away without mental
anxiety when visitors arrive. If you have
made it known that you have given up this
day land you can pleasantly also give your
reasons) you may have several calls at one
time, while otherwise each would have come
and separately taken your time.
Your callers will probably enjoy meeting
each other, and you, with your mind quite
Free will be at your best.
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THE STORY OF A WIG.

A Funny Incident Which Occurred at
tho Theatre In Paris-HumillatiOn.
The mention Of Cambridge reminds me, al.
though the connection is not very close, how
party Of Americans were taken through o
European tour last summer by professor
living in that classic town, from whom, it
may be well to state, did not hear this
story. In the party was one Mrs. A., a sort Of
IN authoress, who did not have the good fort
uns to make herself popular with her fellow
travellers. One evening several Of the COM
pany attended the theatre in Paris, and Mrs.
A., conspiculously arrayed with a splendor
somewhat more youthful than her years war
ranted, rather rudely insisted in putting her.
self into the best place. Another lady vent
ured mildly to protest that Mrs. A. was talk
ing up the room of two, and that she,
personally, was very poorly placed, but
nothing was effected by this remonstrance.
Mrs A., conspicuous and triumphant, sat
and plumed herself in the box, until by some
dreadful chance she leaned too far forward
and down into the box below went the wig
with which she was accustomed to cover her
scanty locks.
The unhappy woman uttered shrek and
retreated to the back OF the box, where she
covered her head with handkerchief and
wept bitterly. Miss E., the lady who had
shortly before tried to induce Mrs. A. to be
reasonable in her claims on the space in the
box, now came CALAMITY to the rescue. She
suppressed her laughter, and began a mental
review of her French, SO that by the end of the
act she felt compensated to grapple with the
situation in the tongue Of the land. Leaning
over she managed by calls, coughs, and more
or less Ineligible EXPLANATIONS to attract the
attention Of the gentlemen in the box below.
The wig had fallen back of their chairs, SO it
was some time before the Frenchmen could
comprehend what was the desire Of the bright
eyed American lady who, with her face wick.
eddy full of mischief, was addressing them
from the box above.
An understanding was at last arrived at,
however, and with all the politenes and grace
of his nation one Of the strangers elevated the
wig OH the point of his cane, and in the face
OF tho whole opera house it rose from one tier
of boxes to the other. The audience ap-
plauded, the unfortunate owner of the head
gear moaned in the corner, while with the air
Of a goddess OF liberty, who stoops to rescue
a nation from a depth Of slavery, Miss B.
leaned over and secured the truant tresses.
The incident is. of course, less funny in the
telling than it was in the acting, but it may
be inferred that at least for q few days Mrs.
A. was somewhat subdued.-Arlo Bates in
Providence Journal.
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Dime Museum Tragedy.

"Don't walk tho plank tonight, Terry''
pleaded the woman. ''I must do me duty,
Liza" sternly returned tho human fly.
"But you're SO weak after your long sickness
that I'm afraid youth stick to the plank. y
son, III pull through all right, hon. Have
no fear" So tho once strong man strapped
on his vacuum producing shoes and was
hoisted to the glazed surface Of the plank
which hung SO near the lofty ceiling Of the
theatre.
Once, and laboriously, be went the plank s
length. He succeeded in turning to 60 back,
but then stuck fast. The leg muscles were
too weak to overcome the attraction between
the board and tho shoes, even sufficiently to
allow the man to drop into the safety net.
The horror stricken wife and the audience
could only shudder and leave him hanging
there. He cannot be taken Off until a gym
mast visits the town who uses tho Same sort
Of trapezc and nets employed by our stranded
friend. The ceiling Of tho variety theatre is
too high, and the board in an almost mac
ccssible position. The only man who can
mako the rescue is now playing a years en-
gagement in New South Wsles.-Buffalo
Express
Shnrs, meat Ia Openly sold in the Havana
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stately Bow. and Courtesics.

The custom of hand shaking-and very
good, hospitable custom it was-has Of late
years been more or less abandoned among
mere acquaintance in New Nc:k society.
There has been of late Yeas :; movement
toward the stately bows and coui'tes;es of the
past. A lady silently courtesics when intro
duced, and gentleman makes a deep bow.
If, however, a lady or gentleman extends a
hand at time Of introduction or, indeed, at
any time, innate politeness will prompt that
it be taken cordially. 1t is a safe rule to
always respond to the greeting in the keynote
of the giver.